A trusted health data integration service delivering better health and research outcomes through novel data linkage mechanisms
HDI consists of four main areas of research:
- Infrastructure Development - Data Integration and Metadata. This area will develop advanced infrastructure facilities for publishing, locating, retrieving and analysing data in a large scale, diverse, distributed information system. The team will also contribute to the development of application specific end-user interfaces to provide access to the data and infrastructure services.
- Data Linking, Cleaning and Management. This area will address the data acquisition model of HDI where protocols, algorithms and software are produced to allow clean, linked data to be extracted, analysed and delivered from multiple databases.
- Security and Privacy. A key design criterion of HDI permits data custodians the ability to retain real-time control over their data resources, including location, format, storage optimisation, quality control and access control. The overarching privacy policy will provide declarative custodial-controlled policy statements enacted throughout the network.
- On-line analytical techniques to allow the integrated databases to be analysed and explored.
HDI brings together research results in one powerful tool for use by policy makers and researchers.
